Table 2 Average GC content and the variance among alignments exceeding 40 bp for each species and each functional category. Variance is standardized to the variance observed in the human sequence.
From: Pigs in sequence space: A 0.66X coverage pig genome survey based on shotgun sequencing
Mean GC content | Variance GC content | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type of sequence | Human | Mouse | Pig | Human | Mouse | Pig |
Intron | 0.390 | 0.413 | 0.407 | 1 | 0.82 | 1.02 |
Coding | 0.487 | 0.500 | 0.496 | 1 | 0.69 | 1.01 |
3' UTR | 0.404 | 0.426 | 0.418 | 1 | 0.77 | 1.03 |
5' UTR | 0.595 | 0.593 | 0.592 | 1 | 0.81 | 0.92 |
Intergenic | 0.384 | 0.399 | 0.396 | 1 | 0.91 | 1.01 |